2 Pfenning - Ferdinand III of Austria-Tuscany

By 1804, Salzburg's days as an independent ecclesiastical state were effectively over. Ferdinand III had been installed as Elector of Salzburg in 1803 following the secularization decrees of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, compensation for Habsburg territorial losses to France under the Treaty of Lunéville. He ruled the archbishopric as a political consolation prize, not a spiritual office. Napoleon's reorganization of German territories would erase Salzburg's autonomy entirely within two years, with the territory passing to Austria by 1805.

This copper piece is among the final issues of Salzburg as a nominally sovereign entity — struck just before the Pressburg peace settlement ended the experiment.